Returning Your Home To Normal With A Post-Halloween Clean Up

On behalf of everyone, here at DF Technical & Consulting Services Ltd., we’d like to wish you all a very happy Halloween! We know tonight will be a fun night for the kids. Putting on those spooky costumes and travelling to neighbourhood homes is an exciting annual tradition. It’s one that you should prepare for with plenty of candy…and cleaning products!

Yes, Halloween is a fun yearly event. But let it not be lost on you that following all of those visits from trick-or-treaters, you have a little work to do to get your home back to its spic-and-span state. Here’s hoping, of course, you won’t have any splattered eggs or hung toilet paper to remove from your property. Even still, to return your home to normal, it’s important to engage in a little post-Halloween clean up.

Cleaning up your front porch.

Let’s see – tracked dirt and mud, candy wrappers, knocked over plants and smashed jack-o-lanterns – these are just a few of the things that may be left over on your front porch tomorrow morning. Naturally, Halloween night is one when your home will see more visitors than usual. And while they may not be coming inside, there will still likely be remnants of their visits. Be sure to give your front porch a clean sweep.

Removing oil-based makeup from furniture and carpeting.

If you have a home that will be full of little monsters tonight, it is possible their Halloween costumes will leave something behind. This is especially true if makeup, face paint, fake blood and fake skin are used to bring their scary costumes to life. Don’t be surprised if you see some of that leftover material on your furniture and in your carpets.

“Dab a small amount of makeup remover or rubbing alcohol on inside seam to test the fabric for colour-safeness,” instructs Reader’s Digest, “If the colour hasn’t changed after 10 minutes, use a washcloth to dampen the stain with remover or alcohol. Dab the stain with a dry paper towel until it no longer picks up any makeup. Treat with stain remover and wash in warm water. Re-treat and rewash if the stain remains.”

Getting candy cleaned out of your fabrics.

Your clothing, carpeting, furniture and other fabrics may become victim to the annual Halloween tradition of chowing down on chocolates, chips, candies and gums. If so, you’ll want to scrape off as much of the chocolate as possible without making the stain any deeper into the fabric. Then apply stain remover and wash.

For chewing gum, “rub an ice cube over the stain until it freezes and hardens. Scrape off as much of the hardened gum as you can without rubbing it deeper into the fabric. Dab with dry-cleaning solvent if you have some on hand; otherwise, apply stain remover and wash,” advises Reader’s Digest.

At DF Technical & Consulting Services Ltd., we’re big on keeping homes clean, especially because it improves indoor air quality. For information about our Air Quality Services, please don’t hesitate to call us at 1-855-668-3131 or email info@dftechnical.ca.